Project Director

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Job Title: Project Director

Summary: Responsible for leading a team in anticipating production challenges and proactively driving solutions that enable teams to realize ideas without compromising quality or well-being. Effectively delegates, consistently anticipates. Forms plans of action and achieves buy-in with their director peers. Directs project managers to achieve project milestones, solve production problems, and maintain studio momentum. Continuously seeks ways to improve the PM team's craft and the project's efficiency. Drives progress with a vision and structure for production.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Drives with a vision the production structure, process, and efficiency in overall game development. Ensures organizational cohesiveness toward project objectives as a member of production leadership.
• Delegates project responsibilities and ownership of aspects of the game to their assigned PM (Project Management) team.
• Demonstrates the highest level of proficiency in methodology and craft and can find and successfully implement innovative solutions to project challenges.
• Acts as the studio liaison with Sony production staff, which includes negotiating and communicating project updates and schedule changes, while fostering a collaborative production environment.
• Anticipates and proactively solves problems both independently and collaboratively, and through effective delegation to project managers.
• Responsible for the creation, modification, and maintenance of project macro schedule and delegates assigned sub-content to project managers. This includes establishing milestone goals. Develops strategy with director group to ensure all deadlines are met in relation to project objectives and scope.
• Delegates the logging, review, and re-prioritization of tasks and bugs to appropriate project managers and craft leads. Guides and approves changes made to ensure project goals are met.
• Maintains a constant awareness of game content status and quality levels through regular play sessions.
• Anticipates scheduling overruns through effective gathering, analysis, and presentation of measurable data. Initiates or delegates actions to resolve scheduling issues …